Winona Ryder Felt Like She Was Living in ‘Girl, Interrupted’ After Johnny Depp Split: I ‘Wasn’t Taking Care of Myself’

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A difficult time. Winona Ryder revealed that she was in a lot of “pain” following her 1993 split from former fiancé Johnny Depp.“That was my Girl, Interrupted real life,” the Stranger Things star, 50, told Harper’s Bazaar in an article published on Tuesday, June 28, comparing her mental state at the time to her 1999 film, which chronicled the lives of several girls in a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s.

In the movie, Ryder played Susanna, who was admitted to the hospital after having a nervous breakdown and attempting to take her own life.While the Edward Scissorhands star didn’t go into detail about her struggles, she did reveal that her Age of Innocence costar Michelle Pfeiffer was a source of support during her hard time. “I remember Michelle being like, ‘This is going to pass.’ But I couldn’t hear it,” Ryder recalled. “I’ve never talked about it.

There’s this part of me that’s very private. I have such, like, a place in my heart for those days. But for someone younger who grew up with social media, it’s hard to describe.”Eventually, with the help of “an incredible therapist,” Ryder was able to heal by imagining being gentle to a younger version of herself. “I remember, I was playing this character who ends up getting tortured in a Chilean prison [in The House of Spirits],” the Little Women star recalled. “I would look at these fake bruises and cuts on my face [from the shoot], and I would struggle to see myself as this little girl. ‘Would you be treating this girl like you’re treating yourself?’ I remember looking at myself and saying, ‘This is what I’m doing to myself inside.’ Because I just wasn’t taking care of myself.”All of the pressure and scrutiny came to a head in 2001, when Ryder was arrested for